There are many ways to keep up with the latest news. The Daily Yonder’s job is to make sense of what the news means for rural people and places. Our rural news coverage includes essential reporting on healthcare, broadband, the economy, and much more.
Commentary: Democrats Could Win Rural Votes Thanks to President Biden’s Pro-Rural Agenda. But There’s More Work To Be Done.
The 2021 Rural Policy Action Report from organizers across the diverse rural spectrum sets bold policy goals and challenges the current administration to act now.
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New Coronavirus Infections and Deaths Drop in Rural Counties
Transmission of Covid-19 in rural America improved last week. Rural counties passed the milestone of 4.5 million total cases and 90,000 deaths.
Federal Funding for Incarcerated Students Returns to Rural Colleges After Two Decades
Comprehensive and practical in-prison education is often a bridge to employment on the outside and a means of achieving lower rates of recidivism.
Analysis: Has the Pandemic Changed Cities Forever?
During the pandemic, people with high-wage, knowledge-based jobs are more likely than lower-wage workers to have stopped commuting into major downtowns. As the economy reopens, will they return?
Breaking the Silence Code: Healing Communities by Giving Youth A Voice
Could one girl’s journey overcoming historical trauma become a model of youth and community healing?
‘The Middle of a Massive Contamination’: Residents of Wisconsin Region Struggle With Aftereffects of Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’
Four years after a facility disclosed water contamination in the surrounding community, residents and locals deal with the impact of PFAS.
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Too Poor to Protect: When Cost-Benefit Analysis Leaves Towns to “Wash Away”
For decades, many communities were deemed too poor for federal flood protection. Now a new section of the federal water law could help them.
Commentary: Can Democrats Compete Again in Rural Missouri?
The former head of rural outreach for the Democratic Party in Missouri plans to initiate her own strategy for attracting rural voters.
Rural Infections Fall by 15%; Rural Vaccination Rates Lag in Two-Thirds of States
Most rural areas are continuing to see improvement in new cases and deaths. But the vaccination rate in rural areas is failing to keep pace with the urban rate in most cases.
Regional Population Loss ‘Metastasizes’ in the Last Decade
Two-thirds of rural counties lost population from 2010-19. The underlying pattern is evident in trends dating to 1970.
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